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Daily Archives: August 5, 2008

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (AIG, AU, AAPL, BLKB, CREE, GENZ, HGG, LL, RDS.A, WBD)

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 6:28 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing this Tuesday morning:American International Group (AIG) Raised to Buy at UBS.Anglogold (AU) Raised to Outperform at ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (BBY, BBBY, CC, DELL, HPQ, JNS, LIZ, LSI, PIR, RACK, RSH, SFD)

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 6:25 am

These are some of the top Downgrades or negative calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning.  Neutral and Hold ratings are not technically negative, but they aren't ringing endorsements ...
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Otter Tail Loses Its Tail (OTTR)

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 5:45 am

Otter Tail Corp. (NASDAQ: OTTR) may have been caught with its tail between its legs.  The small diversified mini-conglomerate has warned that its earnings were going to fall short of ...
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Oil Price Slide Likely To Stop At $120

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 5:36 am

Economists are giddy over the prospects of $100 crude. Predictions of oil dropping to that level are almost as prevalent as were forecasts of $200 just three months ago.The swings ...
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A Fed Rate Increase In The Making

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 5:03 am

Ninety-nine out of one hundred economists say that the Fed will not raise rates this time around. The agency will express its concern about inflation and leave it there. The ...
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China Begins To Look Like 1980s Japan

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 4:38 am

Japan hosted the Olympics in 1972, toward the end of a decade in which its economy grew 10%. Now China gets the games and word is that its GDP expansion ...
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Can Porn Industry “Stimulate” The Economy?

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 2:50 am

Many Americans have taken the $168 billion in government largesse that the government granted them to spend on stimulating the economy on stimulating themselves.According to The New York Times of ...
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Merrill’s (MER) CEO Cites “Employee Morale” As Reason To Raise Funds

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 2:44 am

Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain's decision to sell billions of dollars in bad mortgages at fire sale prices attracted the scorn of Wall Street, which saw it as an ill-time ...
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Media Digest 8/5/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTImes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 2:40 am

According to Reuters, large Yahoo! (YHOO) holder Capital Research want to know whether vote counts from the company's annula meeting were accurate.Reuters writes that the Fed is seen as holding ...
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Asia Markets 8/5/2008 (CN)(CHL)(CHU)

Posted: August 5, 2008 at 2:16 am

Markets in Asia were lower.The Nikkei fell .1% to 12,915. Hitachi rose 2.6% to 822. Nippon Oil rose 2.6% to 630.The Hang Seng fell 3.% to 21,832. China Mobile (CHL) ...
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